KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9- The 56th Merdeka exhibition with the theme ‘Malaysiaku Berdaulat: Tanah Tumpahnya Darahku’ will go on tour after ending its 11-day stint in the capital.
Information Department deputy director-general (Strategic Information) Datuk Poziah Abdul Rahman said the exhibition will be held in Johor on Sept 28 followed by Sabah and Sarawak .
“This exhibition is a good initiative to create public awareness about the struggle for independence by our past leaders.
“Despite the good conditions, we must be wary of negative elements from within and outside the country that can affect stability such as illegal assembly and the intrusion in Lahad Datu, Sabah ” she said after closing the exhibition in the capital, Sunday.
About 10,000 visitors including foreign tourists visited the exhibition held at KL Sentral.
The exhibition centres on the bloody intrusion in Sabah by Sulu terrorists from Southern Philippines which killed ten members of security forces and the independence celebrations since 1957.
Poziah said to mark Malaysia Day on Sept 16, the Information Department will hold an oratory and narration contest on national figures rarely heard before.
They include Rosli Dhobi, a native of Kampung Pulo, Sibu, Sarawak who stabbed governor Duncan George Stewart in 1949, causing him to be put to death at Kuching Central Prison in March 1950.
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